Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal Author: Carissa Byrne Hessick Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial—a standard court­room scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption. But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn't be further from reality. That bed­rock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court. Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants—whether innocent or guilty—to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides. It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and pun­ishing citizens. Professor Hessick makes the case against plea bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be Author: Diane Coyle Narrator: Gina Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world's crises. Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are 'cogs'—self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by 'monsters'—untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes. Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the twenty-first century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Monsters: a reckoning Author: Alison Croggon Narrator: Larissa Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination . . . grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible . . . 'I was born as part of a monstrous structure—the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I am the daughter of an empire that declared itself the natural order of the world.' From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these fictions—and what we have to gain by confronting them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy Author: Andrew Yang Narrator: Andrew Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A lively and bold blueprint for moving beyond the “era of institutional failure” by transforming our outmoded political and economic systems to be resilient to twenty-first-century problems, from the popular entrepreneur, bestselling author, and political truth-teller “A vitally important book.”—Mark Cuban   Despite being written off by the media, Andrew Yang’s shoestring 2020 presidential campaign—powered by his proposal for a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for all Americans—jolted the political establishment, growing into a massive, diverse movement.    In Forward, Yang reveals that UBI and the threat of job automation are only the beginning, diagnosing how a series of cascading problems within our antiquated systems keeps us stuck in the past—imperiling our democracy at every level. With America’s stagnant institutions failing to keep pace with technological change, we grow more polarized as tech platforms supplant our will while feasting on our data. Yang introduces us to the various “priests of the decline” of America, including politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.    The machinery of American democracy is failing, Yang argues, and we need bold new ideas to rewire it for twenty-first-century problems. Inspired by his experience running for office and as an entrepreneur, and by ideas drawn from leading thinkers, Yang offers a series of solutions, including data rights, ranked-choice voting, and fact-based governance empowered by modern technology, writing that “there is no cavalry”—it’s up to us. This is a powerful and urgent warning that we must step back from the brink and plot a new way forward for our democracy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Raise a Conservative Daughter Author: Michelle Easton Narrator: Becky White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As someone who has spent over a quarter-century preparing thousands of conservative girls and women for effective conservative leadership, Michelle Easton knows the daunting challenges parents face. Toxic social media, radical feminist indoctrination in schools, corrosive messages from Hollywood and the entertainment world—the dizzying array of cultural forces aligned against families are real and immediate. But so are the remedies. President Ronald Reagan once said Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. The clear principles and practical tools this book provides will help you and your family raise smart, fun, conservative daughters—young women whose strength of character will keep the flame of liberty alight for generations to come.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century Author: Joshua L. Cherniss Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here. Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again Author: Thomas Geoghegan Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this (and then some), says Thomas Geoghegan, might we heal our fractured democracy. In 2008 Geoghegan?then an established labor lawyer and prolific writer?embarked on a campaign to represent Chicago's Fifth District in the U.S. House, in a special election called when the sitting congressman, Rahm Emanuel, stepped down to serve as newly elected President Barack Obama's chief of staff. For ninety days leading up to the election Geoghegan, a political neophyte at age sixty, knocked on doors and shook hands at train stations and made fundraising calls. On election night he lost, badly. But this humbling experience helped him develop a framework for re-imagining American government in a way that is truly just, fair, and Constitutional. Taking its title from Whitman, The History of Democracy Is Yet to Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again, combines tales from the campaign trail with an incisive vision of how we might get there. In a polarized country, where 100 million citizens don't vote, and those who do are otherwise rarely politically engaged, he makes an impassioned and witty case for the possibility of a truly representative democracy, one built on the ideals of the House, the true chamber of the people, and inspired by the poet who gives the book its name. At once an engaging memoir and a call to arms, The History of Democracy Is Yet to Be Written will inspire and invigorate political veterans and young activists alike.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House Author: Stephanie Grisham Narrator: Stephanie Grisham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade: The Inside Story, Adapted from The Brethren Author: Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the revolutionary Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a front-row seat to the inner workings of the Supreme Court that led to the monumental Roe v. Wade decision. Spanning from 1969 to 1972, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bob Woodward and coauthor Scott Armstrong report on the masterful maneuvering and politicking that affected the court’s decisions and created obstacles for the landmark ruling. Abridged from the #1 bestseller The Brethren, this is an exquisite work of reporting on one of the most important rulings of the United States.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 'Mr. Big' Sting: The Cases, the Killers, the Controversial Confessions Author: Mark Stobbe Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a powerful criminal gang all about it. When the handcuffs were snapped on, the killers learned they'd been duped—that 'Mr. Big' was actually an undercover police officer. These killers ended up with lots of time to think about how tricky police can be. In this captivating book, we learn why Mr. Big is so good at getting killers to confess—and why he occasionally gets confessions from the innocent as well. We meet murderers such as Michael Bridges, who strangled his girlfriend and buried her in another person's grave. Bridges remained free until he told Mr. Big where the body was buried. We also meet people like Kyle Unger, who lied while confessing to Mr. Big and went to prison for a crime he did not commit. The 'Mr. Big' Sting is essential for anyone interested in unorthodox approaches to justice, including their successes and failures. It sheds light on how homicide investigators might catch and punish the guilty while avoiding convicting the innocent.